31 Civs

[chequita guevara]

How do you mod the game to have 31 civs? I've forgotten.

[vmxa1]

Conquest allows you to play with 31 civs, but I think you have to use the editor to go beyond teh default limit.

IOW gen a map in the editor and select scenario properties and then change the number of players. I think you will have to then go back to the map and select redistribute start locations to get teh new civs added.

[chequita guevara]

There was an easier way. I know you have to use the editor, but it was something like selecting the default huge map or something.

[vmxa1]

That will only get you the default number of 16 for a huge map or oversized map. You have to change the civs via the scenario properties as far as I can tell.

[chequita guevara]

No, I did it before without having to have a specific map. I had to reinstall Civ III recently, so I lost that (and my Snoopy graphix).

[vmxa1]

You say that, but I do not see how that works. If I start a game and select huge map, I see 15 civs slots.

The game limit option does not appear to have any setting for the number of civs, so you tell me how.

Maybe if you have a custom BIQ, I have not looked at that since the first month on vanilla civ III.

So I can't help you, sorry.

[chequita guevara]

No one else reads this forum anymore?

I wish I coulkd find the thread via search. It was in the conquests forum.

[Addled Platypus]

somewhere in the directory under mods
was a game with the biggest map of the world I have seen

and you get 31 civs

picking a civ in europe makes things very interesting

picking one in North America, safer

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
No one else reads this forum anymore?

impatient for a reply after two days?

someone's been spending too much time amongst the oaties.
ot forum/i can't figure out how to comment on this

three pages in two hours ... and i'm sure that's not even a record!

[ChrisiusMaximus]

you need to generate a clean map no land at all, save it as (choose a name for your scenario), then go into the rules editor and change the number of civs to 31. dont forget to resave after any changes you make.

you will have to load the scenario but it should generate a random map for you, then allow you to pick a civ as normal and amount of AI up to 30#.

you can also change the size of map while in the editor if you want to but the huge map setting is probably ok even with 31civs, if you do increase the map size also you may end up with a very slow game in the later eras.

I played 31civs on a standard map once that was fun, civs capitals were very close to each other so as you can imagine there was much war

edit: remember you will have to edit the number of civs for each map setting and the sizes for each map setting you desire to alter, if you want this mod to be an all world sizes, all civs allowed on each world size, random map mod

If you struggle PM me

[Willem]

Maximus

You keep giving people the wrong advice. Why are you fixating on creating a map with just water, it's not necessary at all.

Again, just go into World Sizes and select 31 as the number of civs to be played on one of the map sizes.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

As far as im concerned Im not giving wrong advice Willem !

Ive answered a question in the way I knew how !

Ive modded world sizes and civ quantities myself the way ive described, saving them as scenarios, in a file with a clean map to ensure i get a random map every time i want to play a game with altered map or civs number !

Then if i want to play a standard game with default map sizes and default civ numbers i still can !

Do you have some kind of monopoly around here on giving advice ?

Or is it your just obnoxious to people ?

As far as I know and are concerned generating a clean map in the editor ensures a random map for a scenario, as far as Im concerned that has worked for me many times.

Id say my advice is then not wrong but different !

[Willem]

Originally posted by ChrisiusMaximus


Id say my advice is then not wrong but different !

Then you should've mentioned that it's just one way of doing things. When you say things like this:

you need to generate a clean map no land at all, save it as (choose a name for your scenario),

You come across as a know it all who doesn't really know what they're talking about. That bothers me greatly.

Your method might work, but it's not the easiest way to do things. Most people aren't after the complicated way of getting things done, they just want the simplest. Give it to them first, then you can offer alternatives.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

@ Willem Whatever !

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Ive modded world sizes and civ quantities myself the way ive described, saving them as scenarios, in a file with a clean map to ensure i get a random map every time i want to play a game with altered map or civs number !

i understand what he means and hes correct in what he says its just not explained v well
if you load up the editor and then tick the custom rules thing you can alter what ever you like then save it as a .bic file with no map actually created
when you start the game you choose "load scenario" and because you are only altering the rules and not actually creating a map the game will still start up correctly and ask you to define map peramiters and then play as usual but with teh set of rules you created yourself
"saving a clean map" is irrelevant because what is important are the rule changes....tho if you actually created a map perhaps the scenario would force you to use that map i dont know
when i first tryed this i actually saved a blank map and i got the error "no start locations" because i had misunderstood (like you have willem) what he meant

load the editor,change the rules,save the bic file.It works cause i do that myself.But in the post where chris told me this i didnt understand what he meant till somebody else explained it

at the end of the day he was only trying to be helpful so ease up a little tbh

it does appear that you are both describing teh same process without realising it

i hope this has made things clear

Edit:hmm after reading that post its willem that explained it

anyways your both saying the same thing and argueing about whos right